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This is the audio file stripped from a video, so please disregard and forgive the early mention about lighting.

After spending an inordinate amount of time researching Fred Crisman, and following my interview with artist Bryan Shickley, I want to quickly share my own estimation of Fred Crisman and Crisman's wild, weird legacy.

"Tell America to be on his nice list, Crisman comes early this year!"
---Bryan Shickley

Shickley's Crisman film will go public in May, but he's putting out a minute long clip from the film on January 2nd.

Check out Shickley's art at https://bryanshickley.portfoliobox.net/

Check out Shickley's wild world of Fred Crisman: https://www.fredcrisman.com/

In which I talk with Manny Grossman and Craig Fitzgerald about the connection between the Son of Sam and the Necronomicon, the Warlock magick shop, and the occult scene of New York City in the 1970s.

Friends, the Oxford commas are dying. If we don’t act, they’ll become extinct forever.

They’ve been declining for decades. We all saw the signs, yet we turned our backs and said, “Someone else will save the commas.”

Someone else never showed up. Someone else never shows up.

Morally deformed writers have abused the Oxford comma for ages, even asking for the extermination of this essential grammatical species. Literature’s pages are stained red with the blood of their misdeeds.

Canadian and Australian national style guides declared the Oxford comma “unnecessary.” May their national sins be writ forever in the annals of history. Shame upon their memories, upon the memories of their children, and upon the memories of their children’s children.

Seize this chance to be heroes. Protect the Oxford commas.

If we don’t preserve this precious piece of punctuation, we’ll one day find ourselves in a world choked by idiotic sentences like, “He wanted to try the cherry, the lemon and the cookie dough.”

Look at that sentence again. Read it out loud. Hear how utterly idiotic it is. How it sounds like you’ve gotten too impatient to pause before “cookie dough” and decided to just let the words dribble out of your mouth like orange soda from the lips of a yokel gone slack-jawed in mid-drink at a traveling circus’ arrival.

Don’t turn away. Go. Read that sentence again. Hear how maddeningly stupid it sounds. Is that what you want for your children?

Be one of those who stands and says, “There’s a comma before cookie dough. It’s called the Oxford comma. It’s a proud, noble comma. It matters. It cannot be erased.”

No quarter can be given. No quarter in the war for the Oxford comma.

Choose your side now…and fight

Kenny Becker of Ladies' Man provides one of the truest (which in this case means most convoluted) insights into the confused, lost mind of modern man ever written.

The title sounds like clickbait. It isn't. I'm sincerely wondering as I dive deeper into good communication, hypnosis, and mind control. I think they're all basically the same thing.

The 1955 song "A Satisfied Mind" may be the only UFO-inspired country music hit ever recorded.

The original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-nf5GW4tTY

I came across this info while researching for the mighty Songfacts at https://www.songfacts.com/facts/porter-wagoner/a-satisfied-mind

Bear Family's 1955 Dim Lights, Thick Smoke and Hillbilly Music: https://www.bear-family.com/various-country-western-hit-parade-1955-dim-lights-thick-smoke-and-hillbilly-music.html

Moby Dick is a work of genius that embodies the quest for Truth. It gets a bad rap, particularly some of its more incscrutible chapters.

Those chapters, however, are among the most brilliant in the book once we understand what Moby Dick really is.

Check out my books at https://www.amazon.com/Jeff-Suwak/e/B00FB3KQF0?

Check out my website at https://www.beyondthetempestgate.com

In 1967, Mark Litchman, representing Washington State's 45th District, proposed House Bills 45, 467, and 536, all of which dealt with LSD. Litchman, having been counselled by acid guru Timothy Leary, wanted to keep LSD legal to some degree (not as a street drug). I stumbled upon these news articles and found it to be a fascinating piece of Pacific Northwest history, as respectable members of society were openly discussing the legalization of LSD, which is something I have a hard time envisioning in our supposedly more enlightened and open-minded society of 2021.

Just a tasty little Northwest News Nugget.

Sources:

"A Political Viewpoint," Port Angeles Evening News, February 14, 1967 (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79156020/)

"Praise Claimed for LSD Bill," The Spokesman-Review, February 5 1967: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/79156133/

House Journal of the Fortieth Legislature of the State of Washington at Olympia, the State Capital: https://leg.wa.gov/LIC/Documents/Historical/FloorJournals/House/1967HouseJournal.pdf